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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

With larger volumes of data being used to analyze everything from the genome to traffic patterns and lunch choices, it is natural to ask whether big data can crack the code on small business credit risk. There is reason for optimism.

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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

Harvard Business Review

With larger volumes of data being used to analyze everything from the genome to traffic patterns and lunch choices, it is natural to ask whether big data can crack the code on small business credit risk. There is reason for optimism.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. In fact I think the evidence probably is conclusive that a necessary and sufficient condition for a bubble is a prolonged period of economic stability, stable prices, and therefore low risk spreads, credit-risk spreads.